This educator's guide provides K-12 teachers with information about key concepts of the Hall, which includes an anthropological view of Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada as they were thought to have lived prior to and at the time of contact with Europeans. Background information and activities for pre-, during-, and post-visit focus on social science and art standards and curriculum.

Auchenorrhyncha

The collections of leaf hoppers and their relatives at the AMNH are large and diverse, although the Auchenorrhyncha collection has not had a curator in the 140-year history of the museum. Our acquisition of the R. Linnavuori collection in 1987 added more than 100,000 specimens, of which 400 were type specimens. The Linnavuori collection was dominated by the Cicadellidae, on which Linnavuori published extensively. However, other groups such as the Fulgoroidea, Cercopidae, and Cicadidae are well represented. AMNH holds the type specimens of W.T. Davis.